Mar 02 2005

Project: Crackhouse – The Studio

Major renovation work began today on an upstairs room of “The Crackhouse.” Pictured below is its state as of yesterday. Already completed when the picture was taken are: the removal of several layers of floor-coverings (plywood, linoleum, more linoleum, even more linoleum), dismantling of the kitchen area on the far wall, roughing in of plumbing for future laundry room.

Crackhouse 1
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The end result of this renovation will be a transformation of this area into a combination studio/project area, with a laundry room at the other end (not visible in this picture).

Feb 28 2005

Project: Adodo -update

I just heard from one of the editors of Adodo and here’re the cartoonists, besides me, who have contributed for the first issue:

“James Kochalka, Peter Kuper, Carrie McNinch, Derf, Ivan Brunetti, Paul Hornscheneimer, William Schaff and, perhaps Hideshi Hino and Igort ”

Pretty cool lineup I think…

Feb 28 2005

Wired News: Fight for the Right to Watch Trek

Wired News: Fight for the Right to Watch Trek

Look: I’m a big “Star Trek” fan. I own a stuffed tribble…and I still have a phaser that I painstakingly made as a child in my grandfather’s woodshop–based on a scale drawing of one from “The Star Trek Technical Manual” no less. But, fer crying out loud, would it really be a huge tragedy if we had a few years without a Star Trek show in production? Particularly if the show that would get the axe is “Enterprise,” which was impressively even worse than “Deep Space Nine?”

Feb 27 2005

Project: Adodo

Here’s a one page interpretation of an Italian nursery rhyme I did for a new Italian literary magazine called Adodo. The text in English is:

Coo-roo, coo-roo, my dotty mam
Stuffed me in the stewing pan.
My fair sister, scamper scamper,
Packed me in the picnic hamper.
Then my dada for his lunch
Wolfed me down in one big munch.
By the holy saints above,
I became a milk-white dove.
This is my song, coo-roo, coo-roo,
This is the song I sing for you!

adodo
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Feb 26 2005

Googling myself

I just did for the first time what I’m sure most occasionally bored folks have done many times before: googled themselves. Like the classics from Dave Letterman’s timeless “Top ten things that sound dirty but aren’t” list, Googling oneself sounds lecherous but really isn’t; it just means typing your own name into google.com and seeing what turns up. Here are a few of the long-forgotten items that turned up:

An entry on Philip K. Dick I wrote for a fansite for Grant Morrison’s comics series The Invisibles

A website of half-assed 3-D animation-related stuff I had to do for a Renderman shaders programming class in art school

…and A band that I had totally forgotten I played bass for when they recorded some demos at our recording studio many a-year ago

People site anonymity as a virtue of the internet; to them I say, “Horsefeathers!”